Anvil attachment.



GEORGE C. RUSSELL, OF BILOXI, MISSISSIPIPI.

ANVIL ATTACI-IMEN T.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 6, 1911.

Application filed August 24, 1910. Serial No. 578,637.

To all whom it may concem:

Be it known that I, Gnonen C. RUssnLL, Citizen of the United States,residing at BiloXi, in the county of I-Iarrison and State ofMississippi, have invented new and useful Improvements in AnvilAttachments, of Which the following is a specification.

My present invention pertains to anvil attachments such as are designedfor holding tires while being upset by hand forging; and it has for itsobject to provide a simple, compact and eflicient attachment, of thetype stated, and one that is adapted to be conveniently handled as aunit, and is capable of being applied to and removed from an anvil withease and despatch.

The invent-ion will be fully understood from the following descriptionand claim when the same are read in connection with the drawings,accompanying and forming part of this specification, in Which:

Figure l is a perspective view of my novel anvil attachment. Fig. 2 is aplan view of the attachment as a whole. F ig. 3 is a transverse sectiontaken in the plane indicated by the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, lookingdownward. Fig. 4 is a detail side elevation illustrating the dependingpin on the bed plate.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in all of the Views of thedrawings, referring to Which:

A is the main frame of the attachment. The said main frame is made offlat metal in general U-shape, and is provided at the upper ends of itsside portions with horizontal terminals a. These terminals a areapertured for the passage of bolts b, through the medium of which thebed plate B is Connected to the main frame; the said bed plate beingsuperposed o-n the angularly disposed or horizontal terminals a, andbeing provided as shown in Fig. 4 with a depending pin C, designed to beplaced in a socket formed in the upper side of an anvil (not shown),near the rear end of the said anvil. By reference to Fig. 2 it will beseen that the upper side of the bed plate B is roughed, as indicated byc, this in order to enable the bed plate to assist in holding the tirein the manner hereinafter set forth.

In addition to the main frame A and the bed plate B, my novel attachmentcomprises guides l) fiXed to the face of the frame A and extendingoutWard therefrom and havsaid end portions (Z of the guides D, and theside portions of the frame A, and having at the upper ends of its sideportions angularly disposed jaws F, which are arranged and movablevertically above the bed plate B; a fixture -G Connected to thecross-bar of the slide E and projecting forward therefrom; a fixture Hfixed to the cross-bar at the lower end of the main frame A anddepending from said cross-bar; an angular pedal lever I pivoted to thefixture H; and a link J Connected at its upper end to the said fixtureG, and at its lower end to the pedal lever I.

lVhen-it is desired to apply my novel attachment to an anvil, the bedplate B is superposed on the rear portion of the anvil, and the pin C isdisposed in the before mentioned socket in the anvil, while the mainframe A is permitted to hang from the anvil and rest close against theanvil stand. With the attachment positioned as stated, it rests close tothe anvil stand and offers but a slight lateral projection therefrom,and hence it follows that an operator is enabled to eonveniently actuatethe pedal lever I with his right foot, while he uses his left' hand inholding the tire upright and his right hand in wielding the hammeremployed in the upsetting of the tire.

In using the attachment, the operator, by pressing upward on the outerarm of the pedal lever I with his foot, raises the jaws F above the bedplate B, and then the tire is interposed between the bed plate and thesaid jaws, with' the usual upwardly curved loop of the tire disposedbetween the jaws. The operator then presses down on the outer arm of thelever I to clamp the tire between the jaws and the bed plate B, and thenwhile so clamping the tire and holding the same with his left hand, theoperator hammers the said loop out of the tire and by so doing shortensthe tire.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters-Patent, is:

An anvil attachment comprising a flat, U- shaped frame having across-bar at its lower end and horizontal terminals at the upper ends ofits side portions, a bed plate arranged on and Connected to saidterminals of the main frame and having a depending pin and also having aroughened upper ing inturned end portions d; a U-shaped side, guidesfixedly Connected to and eX- slide E interposed and guided between thetending forward from the side portlons of the main frame and havinginturned ends, a U-shaped slide Inovalole Vertically between the saidend portions of the guides and the face of the main frame and having acrossbar at its lower end and also having jaWs extending at right anglesfrom the upper ends of its side portions and disposed above the bedplate, a fixture depending from the cross-bar at the lower end of themain frame, a pedal lever pivoted to said fixture, a fiXture on thecross-bar at the lower end of the slide, and a link interposed betweenand pivoted to the latter fixture and the pedal lever.

In testirnony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of tWosnbscribing Witnesses.

GEORGE O. RUSSELL.

EDWARD LEWIs SUTER.

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